Secret Ceremony
(Marco Denevi)
The story begins with one solterona, Leonides, that believed in witchcrafts, was superstitious and bad thought. A day in which it placed in the doors of the yuyos houses to which it thought that they made certain effect before people who could make damage was him whereupon an adressee surprised it and she was scared. From, there very nervous it took a street car in which it knew a girl upset by the death of his mother. From that moment the girl began it to watch fixedly. Soon it found it again in a cemetery and there, the young person, confused it with his mother and Leonides was let drag by its great similarity without saying nothing to him. It was transferred to a sinister large house, property of that girl, Cecilia call and played the detective role, treating to clarify porqué of his madness. It investigated hiding in the room that was of its mother. The young person almost did not receive visits and at any moment she took care of Leonides: it took breakfast, meals to him, it feared that Leonides, now its mother leaves it again. Only visits that received in that period were those of aunts, Encarnacio'n and Mercedes, that to him objects of the house robbed without Cecilia realizes, only Leonides did since it spied on these women. A Leonides day went them to visit appearing like a distant relative (prime) of the mother of Cecilia, they suspected but soon thinking that it was certain, they could comment out some to him that served to discover to him what happened to him to Cecilia. Her mother died of a terminal disease. A cousin (of its mother), Belena, interested in her fortune, had commanded to three men to kill the young person, but these did not do it, did not fulfill the treatment but that two of them violated it leaving it pregnant. This last one could find out it through letters that Cecilia had. It discovered in addition that to the young person it had left just a short time of life. After having dice to him company, protection and happiness, the girl woke up of her madness not knowing it when already she was agonizing. When dying, Leonides published its death and the one of the baby with the objective of which it appears Belena and when this one arrived, the own Leonides, surprised it, impressing it, and made justice by own account, killed it. Thus his supposed personage of mother left and returned to his fates from solterona like in the beginning.
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